Category: blog

The Lizard….Escape to the beach. Wander the miles of cliff-top trails. Enjoy the Cornish Pasties ( that is if the gulls don’t snatch it out of your hands) it happened to me to the amusement of numerous onlookers. The crab and freshly caught fish is a must. Lizard Point, Cornwall well worth a visit! A fewread more

Yesterday seen me through in Edinburgh to cover the meeting of two women, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon meeting new Prime Minister Theresa May. For sure they would have enjoyed their all important chat about shoes, frocks and handbags….that’s what women talk about. No? Red slippers and blue swede shoes….I am sure Nicola Sturgeon will have maderead more

The cameras started rolling on various sets for the long awaited Trainspotting 2 this week. Little did Danny Boyle and his team know that his cameras were not the only ones in the vicinity. We had day all to ourselves which was a nice wee bonus…this has been on the schedule for some time. It’s alwaysread more

Vintage Bride There are some talented people out there, and on this latest blog I am featuring the work of the very talented Claire Gunn who is both owner and designer @ Vintage Bridal Boutique. Claire is a new specialist design business based in Glasgow, established in August 2015. Designing and making a range of exquisitely unique,read more

It has taken just over a year to transform what was once council offices into the 5* Boclair House Hotel. The newest and most exciting not to mention stunning hotel and wedding venue in Scotland. Manorview Hotels & Leisure Group have excelled themselves with every attention to detail. There are exquisite furnishings throughout, the 12 suites areread more

The amazing world of ink descended on Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange for the weekend. This I think is my third time covering the Scottish Tattoo Convention and as per usual it did not disappoint. I can’t complain either, a nice show both in print and online. The Scottish Tattoo Convention has been running now for 6read more

So and the election campaign got underway yesterday, for me it was a morning of expressions from the First Minister. I was dispatched down to the ‘Bonnie Banks’ for Nicola Sturgeon’s visit to the old steamship the Maid of the Loch moored at Balloch. Despite the bitter cold wind howling down the loch it wasread more

A week of late shift and to liven things up I was dispatched to cover a couple of gigs. The first of the week was The1975 at the 02 Academy in G-town, the second was to The SSE Hydro for Ellie Goulding. Ellie Goulding I had heard of…The1975 I had not, but I do remember 1975read more

Every time I incorporate this cast iron staircase into a shoot I come away with something different, I suppose some of that can be down to who is on said staircase. On this occasion it is the delightful Stephanie. This room I think has to be one of my personal favorites in the castle, it’s huge.read more

A collection of images from a shoot with Julia. There was no specific brief for this one, sometimes it can be quite interesting having absolutely no plan, in fact on this occasion one could say we pretty much winged it. The make up artist at work is something to behold, like an artist building up an oilread more